News article : 'Namhansanseong' (or " The Fortress) vs. 'My Golden Life' and the present day!

This writer compared 2 Korean  movies that were in different catagory 

Because NamHanSansSeong or " The Fortress " (English title) is a movie theater

 that just released on Oct 3, 2017 

and My Golden Life, of course is a TV drama

 that's currently broadcasting every weekend.

But one thing the writer think that make them similar is...

both of them had shown the unselfishness of the heros in different time periods.

Before reading the article, 

It's better for us to understand what this movie " The Fortess " is about "

( Sourced from from Asianwiki, thank you!)

The Fortress

Plot

In 1636, the Qing dynasty (Chinese empire) attacked Joseon (Korea). 

King Injo (Park Hae-Il) and his retainers, including Choi Myung-Kil (Lee Byung-Hun) 

And Kim Sang-Hun (Kim Yun-Seok), hide in the mountain fortress city of Namhansanseong. 

They are isolated from the outside. Meanwhile, Choi Myung-Kil insists they should enter 

the negotiations with the Qing dynasty, but Kim Sang-Hun proposes they should keep fighting.

Profile

Movie: The Fortress (English title)

Revised romanization: Namhansanseong

Hangul: 남한산성

Director: Hwang Dong-Hyuk

Writer: Kim Hoon (novel)

Producer:

Cinematographer:

Release Date: October 3, 2017

Runtime: 139 min.

Genre: Period-17th Century

Distributor: CJ Entertainment

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

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'Namhansanseong' vs. 'My Golden Life' And the present day!

We see today's era in which we live in movies and dramas. 

Then let's look into the distorted self-portrait. Can you respect your opponent?

Written by. Lee Hyun-oh   Enter: 2017-10-17

 If the movie "Namhansanseong" goes to the Chuseok holiday theater, 

it is said that the drama 'My Golden Life ' (KBS 2TV, Saturday and Sunday, 20:00) is popular. I'm a big fan who watching it without fail. Particularly, the heroine (Seo Ji-an, Shin Hye-seon) is a little bit cheerful, but she is fascinated by her nakedness while she is in a dull,

This is the first time that 'My Golden Life' has reached 14th episode (October 15) 

 last month when the actors Lee Byung-hun (Choi Myung-gil) and Kim Yoon- Seok 

broadcast shows the highest audience rating compared to now.

 According to an audience rating survey, the audience rating on this day was 32.4%, 

exceeding the highest 30.9%, and 40% would not be long.

 The movie "Namhansanseong" was built in 1636, before 380 years ago, 

when 120,000 soldiers of Cheong Taejong crossed Yalu River, escaped to Namhansanseong 

in an urgent situation that can not even secure time to escape to Ganghwa Island, 

which had been evacuated at the time.

 During the period of the 47 days after the war, Choi Myung-gil of the Jangwha wave 

and Kim Sang-heon of the retaliatory wave, It ends with a fire. The artificial wages 

and more than 500 scholars were killed in the next year, 1637,

 in the 嚴 冬 雪 寒, on July 30, in the Sambalogdo (嚴 冬 雪 寒) 

The main content is surrender ritual.

 It is a film that makes you feel a lively lesson as to what kind of trials and struggles

 the nation has undergone in the history of the country and nation that have no power

 in history as well as the lives of the frivolous citizens who had to be depressed 

by the ruling class in losing their families in the cry.

 On the other hand, the current drama 'My Golden Life' is found in an ordinary house 

where the chaebol daughter (Seo Ji-an, Choi Eun-seok, actor Shin Hye-sun) got lost 

when she was a child and grown up as the twins. And has to lose her dream job for the unjustice. It is the content of becoming a modern version Cinderella 

who we knew and went back to be a chaebol daughter.

 But Jian soon found out she is not their daughter. 

Her sister (Jisu), not herself, is the daughter of a real conglomerate. I

She felt the remorse of conscience while listening to the words "Go to study abroad" 

while she's worried about the fear, the anxiety, and about the tremendous secrets.

 Until now, it is a drama that deals with the common "secret of birth". 

But Still, it seems that this drama attracts popularity as it is like this kind of drama.

 On Oct 15 , Jian confessed to her brother, Do Kyung (Park Sihoo) 

that she wasn't the real one. After her brother praised the act of Eun Seok at the board 

of the company that day, "It is not me. I am not your sister. It is a bibliography. 

The real Choi Eun Suk is my sister (Seo Eun Su). Jisu is the real Choi Eun-suk. " 

It is this kind of speedyness and truthfulness that viewers like me welcomed and enjoy.

 The film 'Namhansanseong' is a historical drama. The history of disgrace, sickness, 

and war are the backgrounds. In the confrontation of a country which can not protect

 itself against a strong country, it shows the extreme figure of the defeated country 

and the loser. It also illuminates the wretched life that must be done from the position 

of the man and the soul, and the powerless people. 

On the other hand, the drama 'My Golden Life' is a melody drama. 

There is also sympathy for love, friendship, and love between men and women. 

The love triangle is also set. There is an invisible hegemonic rivalry between 

the chaebol family that is far from ordinary people, the imagination, 

and also an ambivalence between each other. 

Nevertheless, it provides freshness far from any drama.

 I think it is because of the truth that given by the two dramas ( storyline ) 
that made me come to write about them as a matching ones 
even though the drama does not seem to fit (with the movie) at all. 

Even in the double-edged confrontation of both Jian and Do Kyung, 

Choi Myung-gil and Kim Sang-heon maintain their gods. 

Instead of representing his role and mediation as Confucian scholars, 

his ministers do not refute his arguments but are of a magnificence and dignity. 

It was not just the cause. There is no selfishness in it. There are only nations and peoples, 

and there is an intimidating spirit of their pain. While the country faces the reality of crisis,

 it sees the nation and patriotism looking forward to tomorrow, not the factions.

 In other words, 'My Golden Life' is a way to share and manage the affairs of a common ordinary family, the affection between parent and child, the crossing of fraternity 

and love between brothers and sisters, the tribal couple, In the anticipation of doing,

 the heroine Ji-an (Choi Eun-seok) and his brother Do Kyung's cool and cool actions

till hard to take our eyes off. At the center of it is that the viewers are absorbed in

 the truthfulness of the heroine and the truthfulness of the mother, dad and brother

 and family rather than oneself.

 'Namhansanseong' is also about politics. The same is true for the audiences 

The perception of the peninsula around neighboring countries and the North Korean 

nuclear issue. This is because the response to the missile provocation can be linked 

to the trends of the government - ruling party or opposition party.

**( I cut off some political paragraph that has nothing to do with " My Golden Life " )

 Anyway, it seems like 'Namhansanseong' or 'My Golden Life' gave the movie audience 

and viewers an opportunity to think about something. (1639) to build artificial rain to surrender King to Jae Taejong under Samcheongdo under the mountain of Namhan,

 and to raise rain to leave it in the future. In front of Daecheong Emperor Gongdeokbi

 (aka Samgangdo Island) built near Jamsil Seokchon lake, It was even more  

when I looked as one of the citizens closely.

 My sister, Seo Ji-su, is Choi Eun-seok but my sister, Seo Ji-su, 
Like Kim Sang-heon, who thinks Dae-gi first for the nation, 
for the people, for the unified Korea. it is time we need that.

**(Ed :: What the author mean? 
Jian's unselfishness and decided to tell the truth is something or someone 
they need for the nation. A person who think about others not just him or herself )

 Maybe 'Namhansanseong' and 'My Golden Life' are the dawns that show us today. 

Credit : Hyun Oh / Conas editor. Essayist (holeekva@hanmail.net), thank you!